Martial arts ascend to the gods

Chapter 501 Shattered Steel
In order to enter the first muscle tumbling stage as soon as possible, Zhou Leng stopped thinking about the Divine Might Trial and calmed down to cultivate.

The dragon's head behind them was getting smaller and smaller.

By the sixth day, it had shrunk to a little over a foot tall, flat, like a large fish fin, and no longer affected its movement.

At first glance, it looks like a humanoid Godzilla, and could easily be mistaken for a special fish-man.

I practiced continuously from morning till evening.

These days, he not only ate all kinds of innate meat like crazy, but also ate most of the pills he had accumulated, such as Dragon Tiger Pills and medicinal fruits from the Beast World.

The strength throughout his body increased rapidly, and the changes in his muscles were exceptionally clear in his martial arts perception.

After completing his cultivation of the Undying Star Body, Zhou Leng stepped out of the tent and sat on a camping chair.

He casually took out a handful of steel balls and, without using his inner energy, kneaded them into a lump of steel with his bare hands.

Gazing into the distance, lost in thought, he repeatedly kneaded his hands.

The silvery-white 304 stainless steel deforms constantly in your hands, just like toy clay.

"It's a little weird."

"I have eaten a lot of dragon meat and pills these days. On the most I have eaten in a single day, I ate a full five tons of ten-horned demon dragon meat. This is about the amount that a typical martial artist would eat during their entire muscle-building stage."

"There is no muscle twitching at all, and there is a kind of illusion that the body is like a bottomless pit. The more you practice, the further away you are from muscle twitching."

"I found many divine records of magic spirit masters in the Tower Book. They all said the same thing about the muscle stage of cultivation: eat meat, eat good meat."

"Moreover, there is a broken piece of divine wood that records that those exceptionally powerful geniuses, during their muscle-building stage, not only eat the flesh of ordinary innate or grandmaster-level beings, but also the flesh of star-blooded beasts. Whether it's a star dragon, a void ancient beast, or anything else, they have to eat their flesh."

"Looking at the subtext of those divine texts, if one does not consume the flesh of those with the bloodline of the stars during this period, one's innate constitution will be defective."

"It's not that it can't be made up for, but it would require a thousand times, ten thousand times the price to make up for it."

"Where am I supposed to find meat from a star-blooded beast?"

After thinking it over, Zhou Leng suddenly looked down at his right hand.

The stainless steel used to be smooth and flat, but now it is cracked everywhere and even keeps crumbling.

Zhou Leng thought for a while before he understood that proper forging would indeed enhance the properties of steel, but excessive forging would lead to changes in the internal microstructure.

It turns out that they actually rubbed the 304 stainless steel until it was ruined.

Zhou Leng casually placed the broken stainless steel on the camping table, stood up, and vaguely understood.

His cultivation path, starting with the trials of advanced tree beings and including his subsequent entry into another dimension to receive the power of the destructive star, had already taken a completely different turn from that of Earth.

Such physical strength far exceeds what is called muscle tumbling.

"Hopefully we can find the flesh of a Starry Sky Bloodline Beast, but if not..."

Zhou Leng solemnly took out the flesh of a Grandmaster-level ferocious beast.

In theory, among the creatures of the Ten Realms, the ones closest to the Starry Sky Bloodline are the ferocious beasts.

The ferocious beasts are truly in a class of their own in the Ten Realms.

The demon lords wreaked havoc across the ten realms, and the Heavenly Calamity Envoys ran rampant in all realms, yet they had no interest in the ferocious beasts.

Zhou Leng took out a large piece of Grandmaster-level ferocious beast meat, about the size of a football, and weighed it in his right hand.

This piece of iron weighs about 200 kilograms, but the meat of this ferocious beast weighs more than 700 kilograms.

He took out his legendary longsword, cut open the beast's flesh, cooked it, and ate it heartily for dinner.

The first bite exploded in my stomach with an aroma dozens of times stronger than that of the magma-roasted meat from the ten-horned demon dragon.

Fortunately, through continuous training over the past few days, even the most vulnerable internal organs of his body have become far stronger than special steel.

Even a cleaver will dull when it strikes a blood vessel.

A surging, fiery power scorched his entire body.

Zhou Leng was completely unaware and continued eating heartily.

The teeth chewed the beast's flesh as if crushing steel, making a crunching sound. Even Big Yellow had to raise its paws in praise of those teeth.

After devouring the entire piece of Grandmaster-level ferocious beast meat in a whirlwind, Zhou Leng stood up, feeling dizzy and lightheaded.

I'm dizzy from eating too much meat, and I'm drunk.

He immediately went into the tent and began to practice his internal energy.

I tried circulating the Star-Gazing Technique, but it didn't work.

Using the Star Phoenix Resurrection Technique didn't work.

Operating the immortal celestial body feels good, but it's not quite there yet.

Circulate the Taiqing Sea Robe, a protective divine skill.

boom!
Zhou Leng felt something explode inside his body.

The violent power within his body circulated wildly according to the Taiqing Haiyi's operating route.

Driven by this protective divine power, his body frantically absorbed the power of the flesh of a Grandmaster-level ferocious beast.

All of this power is used to strengthen the body, allowing it to better integrate with the true qi, thereby enhancing the effects of the Taiqing Haiyi.

Soon, the cultivation was interrupted.

The power of the beast's flesh is insufficient.

Zhou Leng saw this and decided to eat as soon as he saw it, so he took out six pieces of ferocious beast master meat, cooked them and ate them at the same time, not caring how well they were cooked.

After eating, with her large belly, dizzy and flushed, she went into the tent to continue her cultivation.

The power contained in a piece of Grandmaster-level ferocious beast meat is enough to allow an ordinary muscle martial artist to perform a muscle tumble. Now, it all enters Zhou Leng's body.

Gradually, the muscles change.

It doesn't rot like that piece of 304 stainless steel; instead, it grows stronger.

The Taiqing Haiyi is a technique of the Starry Sky Sect, and even seven pieces of Grandmaster-level ferocious beast meat are not enough.

Zhou Leng simply took out twenty pieces of Grandmaster-level ferocious beast meat in one go, cooked them all, and then ate them heartily. After finishing ten pieces, he took the remaining ten away.

Continue cultivating the Taiqing Sea Robe, absorb all its power, then eat another ten pieces before continuing cultivation.

Zhou Leng sat cross-legged inside the tent, his eyes closed.

The power of the ferocious beast within his body and the true energy of the starry sky outside his body continuously enter and transform his physical form.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhou Leng's entire body suddenly cracked open.

Like a piece of white porcelain that has been smashed to pieces and then pieced back together, its body covered in cracks.

With a surge of true energy, large patches of dead skin scattered.

A layer of light blue true qi robe, semi-transparent like glass clothing, adhered to Zhou Leng's entire body.

The robe of true energy was only a thin layer, but in the center of the chest, there was a blue vortex that slowly rotated.

Taiqing Haiyi has successfully completed his cultivation.

Next, like the Blood of Tyranny, it transforms the illusory into the real, and when the transparent becomes opaque, that is the Great Completion of the Taiqing Sea Robe.

Before long, the Taiqing Sea Robe slowly retracted and finally disappeared under the skin.

Zhou Leng clearly sensed that this time, the Taiqing Haiyi did not dissipate as before when he finished his practice.

Instead, it transforms into a peculiar state of true qi, which, in conjunction with the perpetual motion of true qi, adheres to the epidermis and combines with the dermis.

From then on, the dermis was completely transformed into a powerful supernatural force.

The state of perpetual motion of true qi means that true qi operates forever with low consumption, following the route of the Star-Constraining Technique.

Taiqing Haiyi, however, is perpetually present throughout his body thanks to the power of his true qi.

The key is that the Taiqing Haiyi can stabilize the perpetual motion of true qi.

Zhou Leng always struggled to control the perpetual motion of his true qi because his strength grew too rapidly and changed too much. Each time he improved, he needed a long time to adapt.

But from now on, there is no need to adapt, because it will be constantly operated by the Taiqing Haiyi.

There was still no muscle tumbling, but the martial arts perception was clear, and the current muscles had a power far exceeding the normal three-fold muscle tumbling.

"Find a secluded spot and test your strength."

Zhou Leng checked the time; it was late at night on Earth, and many people were resting.

So Zhou Leng went to find Wang Yunbo, who was in charge of the night shift.

The two exchanged a glance, both surprised.

Zhou Leng was surprised that Wang Yunbo, who was usually quite cheerful, looked so worried now.
Wang Yunbo was surprised that he had seen Zhou Leng yesterday, but Zhou Leng seemed like a completely different person, especially his skin, which had a noticeable jade-like glow even though he wasn't using his internal energy.

"Brother Wang, I feel like I've made some progress. I'd like to find a secluded place to practice my boxing." Zhou Leng said.

Wang Yunbo said, "Come on, I'll go with you. It's not safe for you to be alone. By the way... you probably haven't seen the group messages, have you?"

"Not yet, I use flight mode when I cultivate," Zhou Leng said.

Wang Yunbo sighed and said, "Actually, the incident happened yesterday, but we kept it a secret."

"Yesterday, a giant dragon died in the Divine Might Trial. Today, people from all races have died."

"Two human warriors died, one of whom was Hain who came with us, you remember him? He died inside too."

Zhou Leng recalled the little old man from the Southeast Asian countries and frowned, asking, "How exactly did he die?"

"He probably went too far in, encountered too much divine power, couldn't withstand it, and died. At first, I thought Xu Ming was being too protective of you by not letting you enter the Divine Might Trial, but now it seems he was right."

"We've roughly figured some things out now."

"In the Divine Might Trial, as you go deeper, your power gradually increases. Every thousand steps or so, your divine might power doubles, which we call the first stage."

"You heard me right, it's doubled, not increased by one time."

"Hain could originally withstand three thousand steps, which is four times the divine power of the third stage. Then today he said he wanted to try the eight times the divine power of the fourth stage, and he died directly."

Zhou Leng took out his demonized wristwatch, wrote down a few numbers, and said, "If there really are ten stages, then that's 512 times the divine power?"

Wang Yunbo said helplessly, "We've calculated it, it's impossible. At most, it's the sixth or seventh stage. The strongest Xu Ming and Wang Xiong can only withstand the fifth stage now, 16 times the divine power. If they work hard, they might be able to advance to the sixth or seventh stage. But the eighth stage is 128 times the divine power, and without becoming a grandmaster, they simply cannot enter it."

Zhou Leng said, "This is a bit troublesome."

"The orcs died the most, a total of nine, five of them. The remaining four, it is said, almost went insane, cursing and swearing."

"what happened?"

Wang Yunbo said, "Beastmen are the least intelligent beings in the Ten Realms. In the words of a magic spirit master, they still retain nomadic and barbarian habits and have not completed the evolutionary process of normal collective intelligent life, resulting in a huge gap in their evolution. We speculate that there is some defect in their mental will, which is why they are prone to trouble when encountering powerful divine might."

Zhou Leng thought for a moment and said, "It's possible. After all, it's the gods selecting warriors. Being too smart might not be useful, but being too stupid is definitely not an option. I've read some arguments before. The greenskins seem fierce and have built a glorious orc empire, but they have never shaken off the tribal form of primitive humans. This low-organization collective form proves that their minds are flawed, making it impossible for them to establish a sound national organization."

Wang Yunbo checked the time and said, "Let's go, we'll talk as we walk. At first, I didn't believe in the brain thing, but after reading the research of the magic spirit masters, I realized that, in fact, not to mention different races, even within the same race, the internal structure of the brain is completely different. They are only roughly similar, with huge differences in the details..."

The two chatted as they walked out.

As soon as he stepped out of the camp, Wang Yunbo heard a buzzing sound coming from his pocket.

(End of this chapter)